{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = suburb | name = Edinburgh | city = Adelaide | state = sa | image = | caption = | lga = City of Salisbury | postcode = 5111 | est = | local_map = yes | zoom = 11 | pop = <!--leave blank to draw the latest automatically from Wikidata--> | area = | stategov = |fedgov = Spence | near-nw = Penfield | near-n = Penfield | near-ne = Edinburgh North | near-e = Elizabeth <br> Elizabeth South | near-se = Salisbury <br> Elizabeth Vale | near-s = Direk <br> Salisbury North | near-sw = Penfield | near-w = Penfield | dist1 = | location1 = | alternative_location_map = Australia SA inner Adelaide | pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan Adelaide | coordinates = {{coord|34.716755679879945|S|138.6330890677181|E|display=inline,title}} }}
'''Edinburgh''' is an outer northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Salisbury. The suburb was created in 1997, on land straddling Penfield and Salisbury, that was compulsorily acquired by the Commonwealth Government in 1940 in order to manufacture munitions for the war effort during World War II, and later used for a number of defence-related establishments.
The suburb is dominated by the RAAF Base Edinburgh, but also includes the industrial precinct of '''Edinburgh Parks'''.
==History== The area, as with all of the Adelaide Plains, lies within the traditional lands of the Kaurna people.<ref>{{cite web | title=Kaurna People | first1=Lewis Yerloburka | last1=O'Brien | first2=Mandy | last2=Paul | website=Adelaidia | date=8 December 2013 | url=https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/kaurna-people | access-date=18 January 2021 | archive-date=12 August 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812155321/https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/kaurna-people | url-status=dead }}</ref>
=== Salisbury Explosives Factory === <!--redirect lands at this section--> Once a rural area, this changed in 1940, after a large amount of land in the area between Penfield and Salisbury was compulsorily acquired by the Australian Government's Department of Munitions in 1940 to establish a munitions factory.<ref name="past">{{cite web |url=http://playfordspast.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/penfield-township.html |title=Penfield township |date=28 January 2016 |work=Playford's Past History Blog |author= Daina Pocius |publisher=City of Playford |access-date=30 July 2016|archive-date=1 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401192133/https://playfordspast.blogspot.com/2016/01/penfield-township.html}}</ref><ref name=sahist>{{cite web|url=https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/defence-science-and-industry|website= SA History Hub|title=Defence Science and Industry|first=Peter|last=Bell|date=25 June 2014|quote=This entry was first published in ''The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History'', edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly and references updated. Uploaded 25 June 2014| access-date=19 January 2021|publisher=History Trust of South Australia}}</ref> Construction of the '''Salisbury Explosives Factory''' (officially, the '''No.2 Explosives and Filling Factory'''; colloquially "the Munitions")<ref name=slsaphoto>{{cite web | title=Explosives and filling factory No.2, Penfield; [or] Munitions Supply laboratories Penfield SA. 1941-1946. | website=State Library of South Australia|format=Photo and text | url=https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1611/20/125 | access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref> began in November 1940. The architect Herbert Jory was engaged by the Department of Munitions to oversee the building of the factory, which at its height employed 3000 labourers and tradesmen seven days a week. The factory was completed within a year.<ref name=archdbjory>{{cite web | website=Architects of South Australia | title=Architect Details: Jory, Harrold Herbert (Herbert) | url=https://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=82 | access-date=18 January 2021}}</ref>
The factory was one of many facilities created to ensure supplies for six munitions factories established across Australia by the national government during World War II. The site was chosen because of "its strategic position and its proximity to rail transport, and to a water supply and labour".<ref name=archdbjory/> The factory complex included 1,405 buildings, and during wartime employed between 3,000 and 6,000 people.<ref name=slsaphoto/> A new railway line serviced the facilities.<ref>{{cite web | title=Forgotten World War 2 Relics in South Australia | website=WeekendNotes|first=Dave|last= Walsh | date=6 August 2017 | url=https://www.weekendnotes.com/world-war-2-relics-south-australia/ | access-date=19 January 2021}}</ref>
===Other defence establishments=== *The Long Range Weapons Establishment (LRWE) was established in 1947.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} *The High Speed Aerodynamics Laboratory, Propulsion Research Laboratory and the Electronics Research Laboratory, (collectively known as the '''Chemistry & Physics Research Laboratory''') in 1949. * The establishment of the RAAF base was established in 1955.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
The LWRE and laboratories became the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) in 1955, the Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO) in 1974,{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} and the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST) in 2015.<ref name="DST name change">{{cite press release|title=Stop Press! Name Change|url=http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/news/2015/07/31/stop-press-name-change|access-date=9 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919223409/http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/news/2015/07/31/stop-press-name-change|archive-date=19 September 2015|url-status=live|date=31 July 2015|quote=As part of the First Principles Review implementation, from 1 July 2015 the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has been renamed as the Defence Science and Technology Group.}}</ref> It is now an industrial suburb, but is still dominated by RAAF Base Edinburgh, the DST Edinburgh site, with a few remaining sheep-grazing paddocks.
===Suburb (1997)=== The suburb was created in 1997 when it was split from the suburb of Salisbury, when the Australian Government decided that the Australian Department of Defence would rationalise the then "DSTO Salisbury" site and sell off about 70% of the site, and surrounding "Defence-owned" crown land, to form the "Edinburgh Parks" industrial estate.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
==Description== In addition to the RAAF base and the DST Group site, the suburb is home to several of defence contractors, a number of automotive component and parts manufacturers (which supported the Elizabeth Holden manufacturing plant until it closed in 2017), and other industries (for example, a major Coles Supermarkets distribution centre), as well as the Penfield Golf Club golf course, a model railway track, a model boat facility, a pistol range, gemology clubrooms, and a few remaining flocks of sheep.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}
==Edinburgh Parks== The City of Salisbury's website stated in 2013: "Edinburgh Parks is one of Australia's largest advanced industrial precincts and has more than 300 hectares of fully developed land available... It is a "$1.9 billion investment and comprises four precincts designated for aerospace and manufacturing, defence technology, logistics support and automotive industries... Edinburgh Parks industrial blocks are among the best value industrial land in Australia. The site is ideally located in a major industrial growth corridor connected by Adelaide's new northern super highway system."<ref name=propaganda>[http://www.makesgoodbusinesssense.com.au/advantages/land-availability/ Commercial & industrial land availability] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102085105/http://www.makesgoodbusinesssense.com.au/advantages/land-availability/ |date=2 January 2013 }}, City of Salisbury</ref>
Organisations established in the area include BAE Systems Australia, DHL Inghams, Detroit Diesel, Coles Supermarkets Distribution Centre, The National Military Vehicle Museum and Lockheed Martin Australia. The City of Salisbury estimates that over 3,000 jobs have been created in the area through the creation of Edinburgh Parks.<ref name=propaganda/>
The "Invest Northern Adelaide" website, a collaboration of the cities of Playford, Salisbury, and Tea Tree Gully, makes similar glowing claims.<ref name=propaganda2>[http://www.investnorthernadelaide.com.au/why Invest Northern Adelaide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203083010/http://www.investnorthernadelaide.com.au/why |date=3 December 2012 }}, Northern Connections</ref>
==Climate== {{Weather box | width = auto | metric first = yes | single line = yes | location = RAAF Base Edinburgh (1991–2020) | Jan record high C = 47.5 | Feb record high C = 45.0 | Mar record high C = 42.3 | Apr record high C = 39.0 | May record high C = 31.2 | Jun record high C = 27.0 | Jul record high C = 24.2 | Aug record high C = 30.8 | Sep record high C = 34.9 | Oct record high C = 39.9 | Nov record high C = 44.5 | Dec record high C = 46.6 | year record high C = 47.5 | Jan high C = 30.5 | Feb high C = 30.1 | Mar high C = 27.0 | Apr high C = 23.4 | May high C = 19.2 | Jun high C = 16.1 | Jul high C = 15.5 | Aug high C = 16.6 | Sep high C = 19.4 | Oct high C = 22.9 | Nov high C = 26.2 | Dec high C = 28.2 | year high C = 22.9 | Jan mean C = 23.6 | Feb mean C = 23.5 | Mar mean C = 20.7 | Apr mean C = 17.6 | May mean C = 14.2 | Jun mean C = 11.5 | Jul mean C = 10.8 | Aug mean C = 11.5 | Sep mean C = 13.8 | Oct mean C = 16.6 | Nov mean C = 19.7 | Dec mean C = 21.6 | year mean C = 17.1 | Jan low C = 16.7 | Feb low C = 16.8 | Mar low C = 14.4 | Apr low C = 11.8 | May low C = 9.2 | Jun low C = 6.9 | Jul low C = 6.2 | Aug low C = 6.4 | Sep low C = 8.2 | Oct low C = 10.3 | Nov low C = 13.1 | Dec low C = 14.9 | year low C = 11.3 | Jan record low C = 8.1 | Feb record low C = 7.7 | Mar record low C = 5.7 | Apr record low C = -0.1 | May record low C = 1.0 | Jun record low C = -2.0 | Jul record low C = -1.2 | Aug record low C = -0.9 | Sep record low C = 0.4 | Oct record low C = 1.6 | Nov record low C = 3.4 | Dec record low C = 5.7 | year record low C = -2.0 | precipitation colour = green | Jan precipitation mm = 21.4 | Feb precipitation mm = 19.4 | Mar precipitation mm = 21.2 | Apr precipitation mm = 29.0 | May precipitation mm = 42.4 | Jun precipitation mm = 54.5 | Jul precipitation mm = 49.4 | Aug precipitation mm = 47.4 | Sep precipitation mm = 47.4 | Oct precipitation mm = 32.8 | Nov precipitation mm = 24.9 | Dec precipitation mm = 26.4 | year precipitation mm = 416.2 | unit precipitation days = 1 mm | Jan precipitation days = 2.4 | Feb precipitation days = 2.1 | Mar precipitation days = 3.2 | Apr precipitation days = 4.4 | May precipitation days = 7.3 | Jun precipitation days = 9.3 | Jul precipitation days = 9.6 | Aug precipitation days = 9.1 | Sep precipitation days = 7.7 | Oct precipitation days = 5.6 | Nov precipitation days = 4.3 | Dec precipitation days = 3.5 | year precipitation days = 68.4 | Jan dew point C = 9.8 | Feb dew point C = 10.0 | Mar dew point C = 9.5 | Apr dew point C = 8.1 | May dew point C = 8.1 | Jun dew point C = 7.3 | Jul dew point C = 6.6 | Aug dew point C = 6.3 | Sep dew point C = 7.0 | Oct dew point C = 6.8 | Nov dew point C = 7.6 | Dec dew point C = 8.5 | year dew point C = 8.0 | source 1 = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/archive/arc0216/0253808/6.6/data/0-data/Region-5-WMO-Normals-9120/Australia/CSV/Edinburgh_RAAF_95676.csv |title = Edinburgh Raaf Climate Normals for 1991-2020 |publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |format = CSV |access-date = 28 February 2025}}</ref> }}
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{{City of Salisbury suburbs}}
Category:Suburbs of Adelaide Category:1997 establishments in Australia